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...crowd, usually greedy for "color," that curious amalgam of arrogance and nonchalance, this time preferred Oldster Hoppe's quiet manner. At first he justified its hopes, led Cochran by seven points. Gradually Irishman Cochran regained his skill, his orthodox playing succeeding where his opponent's daring wizardry just failed. Superstitious spectators thought Hoppe a sure winner when he reached ''king row" (40th point) ahead of Cochran, groaned when a minute later he miscued. Cochran, now bubbling with confidence, soon completed the match with an unfinished run of seven, prevented Hoppe from fulfilling a ten-year dream...
...nostalgic as a family album. The natural conclusion is that Mark Sullivan, as nearly as any individual can be, is "an average American" of his generation. Hence an investigation of his life explains how a 1905 liberal can be a 1935 reactionary, and why many & many a U. S. oldster hates & fears the New Deal with more than partisan passion...
Buoyant with faith, the soft-voiced 68-year-oldster opened the convention last week by crying to his disciples: "For every hundred delegates here assembled today a million prayers go up to the God of Justice that our efforts in this convention may not tail. We dare not fail. Our Plan is the sole id only hope of a confused and distracted nation. We have become an avalanche ol political power that no derision, no ridicule, no conspiracy of silence can stem...
...London's charity clinics last week went a strong-smelling, matted old man who told the entry clerk that he was 80 years old. In the examining room, an interne ordered the octogenarian to be forthwith soaked and scrubbed. Cried the oldster: "Don't put me in the bath! I've never had a bath! It will kill...
Frenchmen elected their first 100% Communist Senator last week in the droop-mustached, doctrinaire person of M. Marcel Cachin, editor of L'Humanité. Another freak feature of the poll, which left the Senate still an assembly of oldster moderates: Premier Laval was elected Senator twice over, has until Jan. 14 to decide which of two constituencies he will represent for the next nine years...